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Applying Plaster to Blue Board
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" All right let's get together without redolent of the men now Ohio on our best com. You're mixing them blast resistant. --"
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" Yeah and helpful. So it makes about it surface area covering hole all with the heart and general grip drywall has apparently left. Okay it is that a lot more expensive. The prices -- comparable is that right. I always thought the drywall. Taping it -- compound with essentially. Less expensive application. It. It's the -- even now as when things aren't. In the economy got slower and prices come down. The plaster. So they're competitive now very competitive but the big difference is that it's not as much of a do it yourself. Opportunities. Now it is and now. Is you've got to be. Not only well equipped in terms of other tools of the trade. But you also need quite quite a bit of skill. Now does that not joint compound this is plaster within it. It's. It's plaster with a lime out at a and there's other chemicals they add to it help us out of it. Because it it it got it actually binds chemically with the paper coating on the blue board right yes that's true now how much of a grace period do happen and it makes the bat to the point that it's usually. An hour hop the two hours that varies from season season depends on the suit temperature doing better. Plus talk about technique I mean I know that you're gonna have put your own stilts on right now. Let's talk about how you handle this stuff is these guys do it on a day day in day out basis. And it's just this second nature to them the loaded onto their hot. And they've given up from the ceiling first question why do you start on the ceiling out. I'm. So we don't. Growing the walls. Okay. When -- dropping the plaster down. A we have -- that cured get it would cover the walls with -- process so we do this talons are right I went into the walls. The walls are clean when done right yeah. -- that you did the walls and -- and then you wind in the ceiling needs batter all over the all of us at them and I would just go like this. -- If the excess -- want to -- improvement. And you've got a shorter still. Than that you're going to work on this level over here -- hit all the tapes. Please don't have to put -- in between the shape right yes it's the fiberglass. Mesh tape that reinforces the -- Keep it from cracking. Now how do you sense that the thickness of what you're putting on. Just want a tool yeah I'm just a little this experience. But generally suppliers and sixteenth -- an -- which are trying it again right. So well how many coats have a plaster and he actually put done well we'll throw this on hair this coat. -- double what -- No problem. While it's still wet while it's still -- that was going to be my question you've put up about a sixteenth of an inch. Around the whole ceiling and then you'd start over again while it's still wet the second -- isn't quite as neck. Hot an average -- plaster up. We remove a little bit. Me why why is that. That's to make its move just as reference level slab in order to get the whole thing was right yes. You have to throw water and or anything like yes. And that stops the heart and you'll see it will turn out turn Browner. That's when we note use water you just sprinkle out of with a brush with a brush. Now how do you figure the cost of skin job like this is that by the square foot yes. How much. They can range anywhere from that the five cents a square foot. So the seventy -- and that's just that's just plaster that doesn't include the blue book -- includes all bought the whole job that includes the board and the -- yes. Great. Now when you're finished how long have the weight -- to drive before you can do any ceiling paint or anything. Generally to a degree that is. Is -- on the temperature of the house. And it is that -- the warmer it is a festival drag out battle right yes. Is there any sanding involved once you went through -- No there isn't. But sometimes. A panels and -- a paid her my yes we might stand some of them do them down but unlike drywall you don't have to worry about standing in between each no no. Good."